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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931.
TH
BIG III
Eighteen Years of Play
Bring Mark Never Before
Attained by Major Player
: Hit Starts Yank Rally
By Hugh B. Fullerton, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer
Babe Ruth has made 600 home
- runs In his major league career.
, ' In the third Inning of the Yankee.
Bt. Louis game yesterday he drove
one of George Blaeholdcr's offerings
far over the bleacher roof at Sports.
nan's park. . It was his 36th four
. .bagger of the current season and
brought his total for the 18 years
of his major league career up to
600. a mark never before attained
or even threatened by any other
' major leaguer. The Babe reclaimed
the pellet from the youngster who
found It out In Orand Boulevard,
giving In exchange 10 reward and
a new autographed ball.
lilt Htnrts Hnlly.
The homer started the Yanks off
to the winning rally In their 11-7
victory over the Browns. Lou Gehrig
duplicated the swat a moment later
and before the Inning was over the
Yanks had five runs and the game
safely tucked away.
Philadelphia's champion athletics
and the Chicago White Box ham
mered out 24 hits between thorn
and although the Box had a 14-10
edge in the hitting, Philadelphia
won 15 to 13.
Washington's batters rammed out
a total of 18 hits off Clint Brown
and Pete Jablonowakl to take the
fourth game of the series from
Cleveland, a to S.
Walk anil Errors Alii.
Boston and Detroit produced fewer
hits In their olash but seven bancs
on balls off Eddie Durham and
Wiley Moore more than made up
for the absence of blows and the
Red Box tossed In five errors to
make things easy for the Tigers to
walk off with an 11 to 6 triumph
Yesterday's defeats loft Boston and
Chicago tied for sixth place, S7
games behind the Athletics and with
37 to play. They still have their
mathematical chanco to win the pen
nant, however, as the A's havo 39
to go. .- -i
Only one game In the National
league survived a spell of threaten
ing weather. In It, the Boston
Braves took a close battle from the
Pittsburg Pirates, a to 1.
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Juvenile Cast Now
at Fox Craterian
Another rollicking, heart-warming
juvenile comedy drama, will make
Its appearance at the Fox Craterian
starting a 3-day engagement Sunday.
It la tho famous Mark Twain story,
"Huckleberry Finn," with J a o k 1 e
Coogan, Mltal Green, Junior Durkln
and Jackie Scarl In the featured
east.
"Huckleberry Finn" Is the further
adventures of the lovable youngsters
who won favor from screen fans of
all ages In "Tom Sawyer." Junior
Durkln, as Huck, runs away from
home, in fear of his angry fathor.
His father follows him, takes him
to a deserted cabin, but Huck is
rescued by Tom, and, together, the
boys decide to embark on a life of
adventure. The story tells how they
save two young sisters from a pair
of roving desperadoes, at great dan
ger to themselves. This advonture
brings them great satisfaction and
honor.
YESTERDAYS
RESULTS
R. H. E.
Los Angeles .3 4 0
Portland 7 8 0
Batteries t Mou. Wetzel. Nelson
and Campbell; Bowman and Wood
all. R. H. E.
San Francisco 0 16 8
Seattle ....19 13 3
Batteries: Davis, Bablch, Doug
las and Mealcy, Ward; Page and
Cox, Bottarlnl.
R. H. E.
Sacramento . - 8 18 3
Missions 1 13 1
Butteries: Plynn, Chesterfield and
Wlrts; Caster and Hofmann.
' ; " R. H. E.
Oakland 3 6 0
Hollywood ... 9 11 1
Batteries: Pearson, Dag! la, House
and McMullen, Read; Shellenback
and Basnler.
:
George O'Brien Is
Star Rialto Drama
George O'Brien Is seen In' "A
Holy Terror," current success at the
Fox Rialto theatre today and Sun
day In which, ho portryas the role
of a young society man who trails
the auspeoted murderer of his sup
posed father and falls In love with
a beautiful girl he meets In the
. west. The climax Is reached when
the boy discovers he has been track.
Ing his own father. '
Sally Kllers, beautiful and viva.
clous screen actress who was widely
acclaimed far her performances In
"Quick Millions" and "The Black
Camel," enacts the role of the girl
and others In the oast are Rita La
Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirk
wood and Stanley Fields.
Irving dimming! directed.
With Rod and Gun
Look Out for Lefty
By Pap
. Fishing in Crater lake and Diamond
lake Qias Improved greatly during the
cooler weather of the past two weeks,
It Is reported. Limit catches are be.
Ing taken at each of the places. Many
tourists are availing themselves of
fishing In Crater lake since fishing
licenses are not required In the na
tlonal park.
One party of tourists report catch.
ing four trout within an hour All
measured between IB and 30 Inches.
The Crater lake limit Is five fish.
Bass fishing at Lake o' the Woods
Is said to be at Its best oither early
in the morning or late In the even
ing Just beforu cark. Many local
flshermon prefer the bass because
they are such a delicious pan fish
Some trout are being token from
Rogue river now on eggs and files.
Tho California buoktall fly, tied lo
cally by an Ashland man, Is said to
be the favorlto of the river fish Just
now.
Reports from Wardon F. M. Brown
at the mouth of the Rlgue river state
that a few steelheod and some sal
mon are beginning to conio Into the
stream. Because of the unusually
low condition of the Rogue, the fish
are not coming upstream fast, Mr.
Brown states. Instead, they are gath
ering at the mouths of tributary
streams alongshore where the water
Is cooler.
Mr. Brown says the wator In the
Rogue Is lower now than was ever
known before.
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EAGLE PT-EUGENE
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PITS FAST TEAMS TRAPSHOOTKING
TO USE CRUTCHES
Hendershott's baseball team from
Eugene will play the Eagle Point
nine - at the fairgrounds diamond
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
Fans are promised some Interesting
baseball when the two league chum
plons meet. The Eugeno team won
the Lane-Benton county league title
with 10 wins and no defeats. Later
the same nine trounced Lebanon,
winner of the Cascado lenguo title.
0 to 1,
Eagle Point's Cheesemakers won
the Rogue Valley league tltlo and
have since cleaned up on about
everything the county can present
In the way of baseball.
Mope Russell, former pitcher for
the Woodland team In the Sacra
mento valley league, will pitch for
Hendershott's tomorrow. Russell was
probably the outstanding pitcher In
tho California circuit and has been
playing equally good ball In the
Willamette valley this season.
Pitching for Eagle Point will be
taken care of by either Cook or
Best.
The Eugone team Is a mixture of
young and old. There aro three
high school boys that are reported
to have all, the ear marks of good
ball players, several former Univer
sity .of Oregon varsity diamond men
and others from the school, of hard
knocks
Harry Dutton, formerly from
Grants Pass, will play center field
for the visitors.
VANDALIA, O., Aug. 32. (AP)
The king of American trapshooters
was on crutches today but by Mon
day he hopes to defend his crown In
the annual grnnd American .handicap
tournament, national trap-shooting
clsslc.
The king Is Rufus A. King Jr., IB.
and he arrived yesterday from his
home In Wichita Falls, Texas.
Although his right leg Is In a cast
and he can walk about only with the
aid jof crutches, the 16-ycar-old king
pin of American target men Intends
to be on the range for t.he tourna
ment Monday morning. The leg was
fractured several weeks ago.
Among the stars the youthful king
must beat are Qus Smith of Long
Beach, Calif., California representa
tive In the Orand American.
1
Hcppner Andrew Baldwin pur
chased Heppner Soda Works from I
Mrs. Nettle Flower. I
CITY PLAYGROUND
J
Medford's first city playground
Junior tennis tournament Is pro
gressing rapidly. Results of the
matches played are as follows: Vern
Campbell defeated Albert Randies In
a hard fought match 3-6. 8-6. 6-3:
Earl Coss won from Bert Lumon.
6-0, 6-0: Norman Moty defeated
Dale Roberts e-1, 8-6; Sam Van Dyke
8-7, 6-4, 6-3; George Dudley defeated
Bill Walker 6-1, 6-2;; Cleo Hicks
defeated Frank Brown (scores not
reported), Winston Campbell won
by default from Ed Valuer, and
Earl Coss defeated Winston Camp
bell (scores not reported).
Matches to be played as soon as
possible are: Claude Manke vs.
Cleo Hicks, Bob Fowler vs. Bob Holz
gang. Albert Holzgang vs. Ralph
Coghill, and Vern Campbell vs. Nor
man Moty. No more matches should
be scheduled for after 4:30 p.m.
Participants must remember to re
port the scores of their games to
Verdun Boucock or to Miss Coss.
All of the ping pong players have
been eliminated from tho tourna
ment except Albert Gaddls. Ray
Lewis. Charles Ford and Rusoell
Jordan.
Darwin K. Burgher, coach of the
Medford high school athletics, with
bis bride returned yesterday, after
spending the vacation attending sum
mcr school at the University of Ore.
gon and visiting his Idaho, home.
Burgher will start next' week get
ting ready for the football season,
and the first Job will be the leveling
off and arrangement of ' a practice
field at the new senior high school
on Oakdale avenue. It Is probable
that all games this year will be play
ed at the old tilgh scaool field, with
the practice held on the new field.
Ray Henderson, coach of the Junior
hlghj school, will return the first
week In September to resume his
coaching duties. ....
Coach Burgher will have plenty of
both old and new material to work
with this fall. Lettermen scheduled
to return are OUUnskl. Dutch Zum
brunn, Blllle Walker. Wilton White.
Bill Cunningham, Sunderman. oil
ver Hughes, Joe cave, jr., and a num.
ber of freshmen of considerable heft.
Prospects for football and basketball
Include Tommy White, Junior high
school star, who may be developed
Into a quarterback the weak spot In
the gridiron squad.
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HOW THEY
STAN D
' .(By the AfMX-laled Press.)
Coust,'
. W. L.
San Francisco 27 31
Pet.
.663
.... 26 22 .642
Los Angeles
Oakland ...I 36 23 .643
Portland - 26 23 .642
Hollywood . 2S 22 .532
Seattle - 33 24 , .489
Sacramento 20 37 .426
Missions 1 30 .362
American.
SET FOR SUNDAY
' Tennis teams from Grants Pass and
Rosoburg will arrive here Sunday to
play In the double header .matches
with the Medford Tennis club.
The Grants Pass match Is sched
uled for 8 o'clock In the morning.
Eight men and two women entrants
are coming from Grants Pass.
Roseburg will be the second on the
local club's schedule for the day. The
match will be held in the afternoon
at the high school courts:
Such players as John Reddy, Kra
mer euel, Alvln Tollefson, Carter
Boggs,. Harry Garfield, Jtmmle Ed
mlston, Helen Edmlston, Mrs. Almus
Prultt, Almus Prultt and others will
defend the Medford club against the
Invading racquet wleldcrs.
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LAST
IGHT
(By the Associated Press.)
Fort Dodge. la. Owen Phelps.
Mesa, Ariz., stopped Hairy Dillon,
Chicago. (4); Paul Wongley. Minne
apolis, outpointed Henry Falengano,
Des Molne, (6).
Philadelphia .
Washington ...
New York
Cleveland
St, Louis
Chicago :
Boston'
Detroit
83 32 .722
71 46 .607
67 49 .678
COLEMAN'S Hi
... 56 60 .483
... 49 87 .422
. 47 70 .405
... 47 70
.46 72
.405
.385
National.
St. Louis
75 43 .638
New York - - 65 50 .665
Chicago 68 53 .655
Brooklyn 62 69 .612
Boston ' 67 60 .487
Pittsburgh .... 66 62 .
Philadelphia .. 49 70 .412
Cincinnati - 43 76 .381
PLAY-OFF IS
BY 60-FOOT PUTT
SEATTLE. Aug. 32. (AP) Ernie
Tate. Vancouver. B.CTpro dropped
a 60fcot putt on the ninth hole of
a playoff with tvro other golfers yes
terday to win the Pacific northwest
assistant professlonels' championship.
Tate was tied with two Seattle
players, Bill Zongker and Bob Dun
can, with 144's for the regular 36
hole play.
Tate's sensational putt gave him a
birdie 2, to break a tie with Zong
ker at the last hole. -
STATE GOLF CROWN
SPOKKANE, Aug. 22. (AP) The
Workington state women's golf cham
pion-ship is at home In Suokane to
day, held by Mrs. Guy Riegel.
Mrs. Rlegel won it yesterday by a
8 to 5 margin, defeating Mrs. W. A.
Kirkman of Seattle, In a sensational
36-hole match over the Manlto course.
The new champion took 151 strokes,
14 over women's par. to cover the 31
hcles, while Mrs. Kirkman required
five more strokes.
Indianapolis. Tracq Cox, Indian
apolis, knocked out Eddie Anderson,
Cody, Wyo.. (4).
Chicago. Buck Everett, Gary,
Ind., outpointed Joe Dokter, Buffalo,
(10). .
San Francisco. Fidel LaBarba.
Los AngelfcL outpointed Pluto, De
Sa. Portugal, tlO).
Loyola Sprinter
Sets Africa Mark
JOHANNESBURG. Africa, Aug. 22.
( AP) Fifteen thousand spectators to
day saw Emmett topplno of Loyola
university (New Orleans) crack
sprinter of the American barnstorm
ing track team, set a new South Afri
can record for the 100-yard dash In
winning the event over a star field
of Transvaal and South African uni
versity athletes.
Running on a perfect track and In
Ideal weather conditions, the Amer
ican flash was .t)mcd in 9 3-8 seconds.
VICTORY OVER L
By ,e Aswlitti fl
- ' a tie ui uJ
runa gatherea 1 7
over ix Angela
land lost ninht . . 1
Ed Coleman, scoring two u,J
him, was the big rok, ,1
SeattlA nriri o..
out 2fl h.r. k. "
eight errors and the iZ?J
the same. 1Q t o .""I
, lour MtJ ,
second Inning when the 8mi,1
three errors. Indian pia!l
two bm H tu" "I!
nnfAfri Hallo nl
" """" tu WSIKS.
Tho Iffl,,.., . I
... ..iu,uu uea, t
... ucr oacramento with J
inrtlno- falin i- ........ H
six runs and drove Leftv pi,J
the mminri ' -1
V r n n V c-n - I
.cB,0it-u n 22mi
of the season as the start d.
Oakland 9 to 2. Lee homed ii
stars In the seventh.
f
TO FACE
ALBANT Walker Floral Co.
moved to new location in Brennor
IllllldlllK.
PORTLAND, Ore. Aue. a
A surplus of available n
and a dearth of likely oppj
cumionts me sponsors ol
Dcmpsey appearance here Mi
August 24, In the first four-
bout of his "fighting tour
country.
Citizens In all walks ol Hid
Informed the Portland boilng
mission they would be glut
iiciste, out the commission.
meeting yesterday, decided to
down all such offers and selt
referee from among the reguj
censed referees. The referee i
selected some time before j
night.
Ralph H. Gruman, prom?t
the Dempsey show, said todl
did not expect the former 1
weight champion to am
until late Sunday night or a
morning.
Dempsey will start his four-
bout against Big Bill Hartnllj
ton negro. So far no other
nents have been selected, but
man said he expected to slgr.
more today. His purpose In i
Ing four Is to Insure Dempl
rounds of fighting. A krJ
would end one round and sj
fighter would be brought In
next round.
Inwa Makes Lots of I'nH
DES MOINES. Ia. (API-I
though Iowa imports about
cent of its cheese consumptl
state's factories last year pi
1.373.892 Bounds of It. Prod
costs averaged 18.83 cents a
R3ai?Es ITUnese aittes im Yum? (Safleimte
SEPTEMBER 7 to
THE MAIL TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL
Jack Whiting Star
Holly Mystery Hit
Jack Whiting, lost seen In the
Holly In "Top Speed" with Joe
Brown, is one of the featured play
ers In "Men of the Bky" the fea
ture attraction opening at the Holly
tomorrow. Irene Delroy plays oppo
site him. In this romance of spies
of the earth and sky.
"The Reckless Hour" with Dor
othy Mackalll, H. B. Warner, Conrad
Nagel and Joan Blonriell, closes at
the Holly with the last perform
ances tonight. Also on the closing
program la Nei.s Reel with Ora-
ham McNamee announcing and the
last of the "Adventures In Africa1'
Reels.
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